voting machine
nounDefinition of voting machine
: a mechanical device for recording and counting votes cast in an election
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House Democrats have introduced two bills that would require paper records to back up voting machines, mandate post-election audits and set security standards for election technology vendors. — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, "At Def Con, hackers and lawmakers came together to tackle holes in election security," 12 Aug. 2019 A few dozen Board of Elections workers on Tuesday morning began the preparation work for the manual recount inside the Middle Village, Queens, office that stores voting machines. — Katie Honan, WSJ, "Queens District Attorney Primary Could Take Weeks to Call," 10 July 2019 And the company is calling on Congress to pass legislation mandating paper ballots and raising security standards for voting machines. — Timothy B. Lee, WIRED, "A Top Voting-Machine Firm Calls for Paper Ballots," 11 June 2019 And the company is calling on Congress to pass legislation mandating paper ballots and raising security standards for voting machines. — Wired, "A Top Voting-Machine Firm Calls for Paper Ballots," 11 June 2019 And the company is calling on Congress to pass legislation mandating paper ballots and raising security standards for voting machines. — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, "Leading voting-machine vendor vows to ditch paperless voting," 10 June 2019 Before the 2018 midterms, NBC News spoke to a range of experts who said that many of the country’s voting machines are woefully unreliable and in many cases around 15 year old. — NBC News, "Russian hackers, town budgets, Windows updates: Officials grapple with realities of election security," 16 Aug. 2019 Aging voting equipment, particularly voting machines that had no paper record of votes, were vulnerable to exploitation by a committed adversary. — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, "At Def Con, hackers and lawmakers came together to tackle holes in election security," 12 Aug. 2019 But according to Vice, those are only intended to be active for short periods, either for testing or immediately after an election, when voting machines transmit preliminary vote totals to central tallying systems. — David Z. Morris, Fortune, "Swing State Voting Systems Were Left Connected to the Internet for Months, Report Says," 8 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'voting machine.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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